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Dear Geography and Sustainability Community,
I hope everyone’s semester is going well. As registration for Spring 2024 approaches, please allow me to announce a course to be offered for the first time at UTK: GEOG 421, Maps, Society, and Power. I have attached a promotional slide
and please see information below for more information. Students from all sub-fields (physical/environmental, human, geospatial, and sustainability) are welcome.
Best wishes,
Dr. Alderman
GEOG 421 - Maps, Society, Power
3 Credit Hours
Exploration of maps as historical and contemporary technologies of social power and resistance; wider political lives and place-making power of maps; ethical and social justice implications of cartography and geospatial analysis.
Derek H. Alderman, PhD
He / Him / His
Professor of Geography, Dept. of Geography & Sustainability
President-Elect, Faculty Senate
University of Tennessee
Voice: (865) 974-0406
Member,
Federal Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names (DOI)
Founder, Tourism RESET
Past President, American Association of Geographers (2017-18)
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